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Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico at NATO HQ, April 24, 2012

NATOSource

Jun 4, 2014

Slovakia and the Czech Republic Reject NATO Bases

By Jan Lopatka, Reuters

Slovakia joined neighbor the Czech Republic on Wednesday in effectively ruling out hosting NATO units, when Prime Minister Robert Fico said he could not imagine there would be foreign soldiers on its territory.

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MENASource

Jun 4, 2014

Egypt’s Divisive Influence in Libya and Tunisia

By Lara Talverdian

No two Arab transitions have unfolded the same over the last three years. Each transition is unique, but the societies are not insulated and the borders are not retentive; what happens in one place reverberates elsewhere. In the case of North Africa, developments in Egypt over the past year threaten to undermine consensus-building and the […]

Elections Libya

MENASource

Jun 4, 2014

Top News: Celebration in Tahrir as Sisi Wins Presidency

By MENASource

Egypt’s Presidential Elections Commission has declared former military chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi Egypt’s new president, confirming that he won 96.91 percent of the votes in the May election. Sisi’s sole contender, leftist Hamdeen Sabahi, took a modest 3.9 percent, the total of which were surpassed by invalid votes. Voter turnout was at 47.5 percent. 

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel after meeting of NATO defense ministers, June 4, 2014

NATOSource

Jun 4, 2014

Hagel Escalates Obama’s Warning to Allies: US Support for NATO Could Be at Risk

By James G. Neuger and Gopal Ratnam, Bloomberg News

NATO defense ministers struggled to find a response to Russia’s Ukraine incursion, hemmed in by financial constraints, U.S. demands that Europe raise defense spending and a desire not to provoke the Kremlin.

Europe & Eurasia France

MENASource

Jun 4, 2014

Sisi’s Presidency Fueling Expectations in Egypt

By Svetlana Milbert

Now that Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been elected president, Egyptians await to see what measures he will undertake to ease economic burdens and improve living conditions. A priority for most citizens are the recurrent, and growing, energy shortages in the face of peak demand season. Although energy shortages and blackouts are not a new phenomenon, […]

Elections North Africa
Ramzan Kadyrov, president of the Russian region of Chechnya, speaks from his home in a June 1 television interview. (Nedelia - REN TV)

New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2014

Chechnya’s Leader to Russian TV: ‘I Did Not Send’ the Chechen Militiamen Fighting in Ukraine

By Irena Chalupa

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied president of Chechnya, has taken to Russian television to deny that he has sent any of his Chechen fighters to join the Russian-backed separatist militias in eastern Ukraine.

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MENASource

Jun 4, 2014

Syria: False Election, True Critique

By Frederic C. Hof

Yesterday, June 3, was make-believe election day in that part of Syria where Iran props up Bashar al-Assad as president-in-name of a broken Syrian Arab Republic. A shoe brush entrepreneur and a tamed communist dutifully played their assigned roles as ballot alternatives to Mr. Assad, albeit with open, deferential reverence toward the man who has […]

Syria

MENASource

Jun 4, 2014

Top News: Sisi Wins Presidential Race with 96.91 Percent; Government Agrees on Parliamentary Elections Draft Law

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Presidential Elections Commission has declared former military chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi Egypt’s new president, confirming that he won 96.91 percent of the votes in the May election. Meanwhile, the Egyptian government agreed on the Parliamentary Elections and Political Rights draft laws on Wednesday, Aswat Masriya reports.

MENASource

Jun 4, 2014

EconSource: US signs $500 million loan guarantee agreement with Tunisia

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

MENASource

Jun 4, 2014

MENASource Q&A with Munir Daair

By MENASource

Yemen finds itself slipping into turbulent times as tribal conflict, extremist networks, and public grievances threaten to tear the country’s social fabric. Danya Greenfield, acting director for the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, sat down with Munir Daair, a Yemeni businessman and political activist, to discuss the latest challenges in Yemen’s […]

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